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Bug#583670: marked as done (please provide a RSS/Atom feed for news items on the homepage)

Your message dated Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:18:26 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#583670: RSS feed for Debian news?
has caused the Debian Bug report #583670,
regarding please provide a RSS/Atom feed for news items on the homepage
to be marked as done.

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Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist

Heya, it would be great to have a RSS and/or Atom feed for the news section of
the Debian homepage (and possibly a different one for the advisories listed
there too). I know it's stuff one can already follow via mailing list(s), but a
lot of people these days uses feeds directly, I think we can offer a service to
more users offering both.

Now, I've written before helpers that generate RSS, and I'm willing to
contribute one for this specific case. Nevertheless the README files under
News/ are a bit scary in stating that only press/webmasters should fiddle with
them, so I'm looking for advice. Where can a script that generates RSS/Atom
(and commits it?) can be hooked at in the process of maintaining the HTML
listing of news on the website homepage?

An alternative less invasive solution would be to have a separate script
elsewhere checking out periodically from CVS the News/ directory, generate the
RSS feed, and have it referenced from the homepage. That would work, wouldn't
be that much at stake with feed technology (which does pull anyhow), but
somehow doesn't feel "right".

Any hint?
Thanks for maintaining www.d.o!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Hi!

Am 21.01.2011 15:22, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl:

[..]
> However, what I did not completly understood is all the stuff in
> security/Makefile, so I couldn't copy them into News/Makfefile and
> activate them.  Hope someone else knows how to do that.

Well...  I still haven't understood it, but at least I was able to copy
the corepending parts and do s/DSA/NEWS/ and change some path.  So
starting with the next webwml run, we should have
http://www.debian.org/News/news.rdf (and news.en.rdf and news.$foo.rdf).
 So I close this bug report.


Ean, that actually only leaves the question, if we also want to offer
Atom feeds, feel free start that discussion on the debian-www list.


Best regards,
   Alexander

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